When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside."